Product Overview & Details for Harvard The Comprehensive 2023 Gastroenterology Update
The Comprehensive 2023 Gastroenterology Update
Overview
This program ensures participants are current with state-of-the-art GI strategies and clinical practices. It covers recent advances and their impact on clinical approaches and on patient outcomes. Updates, best practices, and new guidelines are presented by nationally recognized GI experts and master clinicians.
Practical, Results-Driven Education
Highlights of the 2023 program include:
- Updated guidelines for the use of biologics in IBD
- Therapeutic drug monitoring in IBD treatment
- Updated guidelines for treatment of C. difficile infection
- Managing GI complications of immunotherapy
- Improved management of IBS and pelvic floor disorders
- Management of refractory GERD
- Expanded genetic testing options to diagnose hereditary GI cancer syndromes
- Management of fatty liver disease in 2023
- How to diagnose and manage cirrhosis
- How to improve your adenoma detection rate (ADR)
- Steps to ensure delivery of high-quality colonoscopic care
- Techniques to effectively control acute GI bleeding
- When FMT is indicated for treatment
- Impact of COVID on GI practice
- New strategies to treat common GI problems
- A comprehensive update of national guidelines
As new strategies, guidelines, and diagnostic and treatment options are presented, they are coupled with specific recommendations for incorporating these updates into your day-to-day work.
Education to Optimize Your Patient Outcomes
The evidence-based recommendations provided in this program cover:
- IBD
- GI Complications of Immunotherapy
- Microscopic Colitis
- Fatty Liver
- Barrett’s Esophagus
- Eosinophilic Esophagitis
- C. difficile Colitis
- Alcohol-Related Liver Disease
- Autoimmune Hepatitis
- IBS
- Refractory GERD
- Pelvic Floor Disorders
- Acute Pancreatitis
- Chronic Pancreatitis
- Celiac Disease
- GI Bleeding
- High Risk for Colorectal Cancer
Recent Advances and Innovations
Clinicians can rely on this program for education on:
- Biological therapies for IBD: how to choose which agent to start with? How to monitor during treatment? What is the role for therapeutic drug monitoring? When to switch? What new agents are now available?
- Managing refractory pouchitis
- GI complications of immunotherapy — a common and heterogeneous disorder: how to approach and treat effectively?
- Eosinophilic esophagitis: how to decide between drug therapy and dietary therapy?
- The stool microbiome: understanding the science behind clinical applications
- Celiac disease: making sense of the multiple serologic tests—new therapeutic strategies are on the horizon
- Adenoma detection rates: critical to measure and how to incorporate strategies to increase your rate
This program also offers a glimpse into the future of gastroenterology with engaging lectures given by world-renowned experts on inspiring and cutting-edge topics.
8:30am to 8:35am Welcome
Daniel Chung, MD
8:35am to 9:20am Which Initial Therapy to Choose for Crohn’s and UC?
Joshua Korzenik, MD
9:20am to 10:00am Management of Severe UC and Pouch-Related Complications
Ashwin Ananthakrishnan, MD, MPH
10:00am to 10:35am IBD in Pregnancy and the Elderly
Sonia Friedman, MD
10:35am to 10:50am Panel Q&A
Drs. Ananthakrishnan, Friedman, and Korzenik
10:50am to 11:05am Break
11:05am to 11:40am WORKSHOP 1: Cutaneous Manifestations of IBD
Daniela Kroshinsky, MD
11:40am to 12:20pm Therapeutic Drug Monitoring in IBD
Adam Cheifetz, MD
12:20pm to 12:35pm Panel Q&A
Drs. Cheifetz and Kroshinsky
12:35pm to 1:45pm Break
1:45pm to 2:15pm How to Manage Microscopic Colitis
Hamed Khalili, MD
2:15pm to 2:45pm GI Complications of Immunotherapy
Michael Dougan, MD
2:45pm to 3:00pm Panel Q&A
Drs. Dougan and Khalili
3:00pm to 3:15pm Break
3:15pm to 3:50pm What’s New in Hereditary GI Cancers
Daniel Chung, MD
Schedule
All times below are Eastern Daylight Time.
3:50pm to 4:25pm WORKSHOP 2: CRC Screening and How to Improve Your
ADR
Ramona Lim, MD
4:25pm to 5:00pm Chemoprevention of CRC: What Should You Recommend?
Andrew Chan, MD, MPH
5:00pm to 5:15pm Panel Q&A
Drs. Chan, Chung, and Lim
8:30am to 9:05am Barrett’s Esophagus: Whom and How to Treat?
Douglas Pleskow, MD
9:05am to 9:40am Esophageal Motility Disorders Made Easy
Barbara Nath, MD
9:40am to 10:15am Management of Refractory GERD
Norman Nishioka, MD
10:15am to 10:30am Panel Q&A
Drs. Nath, Nishioka, and Pleskow
10:30am to 10:45am Break
10:45am to 11:20am Comprehensive Approach to Eosinophilic Esophagitis
Walter Chan, MD
11:20am to 12:10pm Celiac Disease and Gluten Sensitivity: 2023 Practitioner
Updates
Ciaran Kelly, MD
12:10pm to 12:25pm Panel Q&A
Drs. Chan and Kelly
12:25pm to 1:30pm Break
1:30pm to 2:00pm Optimizing the Management of Gastroparesis
Braden Kuo, MD
2:00pm to 2:40pm Making the Diagnosis of IBS
Kyle Staller, MD
2:40pm to 3:20pm Modern Strategies to Treat IBS
Johanna Iturrino Moreda, MD
3:20pm to 3:35pm Panel Q&A
Drs. Iturrino Moreda, Kuo, and Staller
3:35pm to 3:50pm Break
3:50pm to 4:20pm How to Evaluate Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth
Tuesday, June 13, 2023
Judy Nee, MD
4:20pm to 4:50pm WORKSHOP 3: Systematic Approaches to Pelvic Floor
Disorders
Meghan Markowski, PT, DPT
4:50pm to 5:05pm Panel Q&A
Drs. Markowski and Nee
8:30am to 9:05am Cholestatic Liver Diseases: What’s New in PBC and PSC
Daniel Pratt, MD
9:05am to 9:40am Update on Autoimmune Hepatitis
Alan Bonder, MD
9:40am to 10:10am WORKSHOP 4: How to Approach Drug-Induced Liver Injury
(DILI)
Michael Curry, MD
10:10am to 10:25am Panel Q&A
Drs. Bonder, Curry, and Pratt
10:25am to 10:40am Break
10:40am to 11:20am Alcohol-Associated Liver Disease
Gyongyi Szabo, MD, PhD
11:20am to 11:50am The Management of NAFLD
Kathleen Corey, MD
11:50am to 12:05pm Panel Q&A
Drs. Corey and Szabo
12:05pm to 1:05pm Break
1:05pm to 1:40pm WORKSHOP 5: How to Work Up a Liver Lesion
Karin Andersson, MD
1:40pm to 2:15pm Diagnosis and Routine Management of Cirrhosis
Michelle Lai, MD
2:15pm to 2:55pm End-Stage Liver Disease and Management of Portal
Hypertension
Anna Rutherford, MD
2:55pm to 3:10pm Panel Q&A
Drs. Andersson, Lai, and Rutherford
3:10pm to 3:25pm Break
3:25pm to 4:00pm Best Management Strategies in Acute Pancreatitis
Wednesday, June 14, 2023
4:00pm to 4:35pm Updates in Chronic Pancreatitis
Sunil Sheth, MD
4:35pm to 5:10pm Controversies in the Management of Cystic Lesions of the
Pancreas
Carlos Fernandez-del Castillo, MD
5:10pm to 5:25pm Panel Q&A
Drs. Fernandez-del Castillo, Jin, and Sheth
8:30am to 9:15am WORKSHOP 6: Tips for Identifying and Removing Colon
Polyps
Tyler Berzin, MD
9:15am to 9:45am Quality Measures for Colonoscopy: What’s New and Why It
Matters
Mandeep Sawhney, MD
9:45am to 10:00am Panel Q&A
Drs.Berzin and Sawhney
10:00am to 10:15am Break
10:15am to 10:50am Endoscopy and the Anticoagulated Patient
Kunal Jajoo, MD
10:50am to 11:30am Acute GI Bleeding and Other GI Emergencies
Linda Lee, MD
11:30am to 12:05pm WORKSHOP 7: Challenging Case Presentations in GI
Douglas Horst, MD
12:05pm to 12:20pm Panel Q&A
Drs. Horst, Jajoo, and Lee
12:20pm to 1:30pm Break
1:30pm to 2:00pm New Insights into the Gut Microbiome and Disease
Ramnik Xavier, MD
2:00pm to 2:40pm COVID in the GI Tract
Walter Chan, MD, MPH
2:40pm to 3:20pm What’s New in C. difficile Colitis
Jessica Allegretti, MD, MPH
3:20pm to 3:35pm Panel Q&A
Drs. Allegretti, Chan, and Xavier
